Gao Shifang said: "Although we cannot increase the yield per mu from 70 kilograms to 2300 kilograms, but from 70 kilograms to 100 kilograms, it is even 120 kilograms. In this era, even without fertilizers, it can still be done."

When Li Songchen and others heard this, their eyes were not only lit. Although they could not turn the yield per mu a few times, they could increase by 40% or 50%. Even if they only increase by 10% or 20%, it would be a good result. Therefore, Li Songchen immediately asked: "Mr. Gao, do you have any good solutions?"

Before he had nothing to say, Gao Shize looked at Gao Shunxiang and said, "Dad, Uncle Liu, it's better for you to come. You two elders have more experience in this regard."

Gao Shunxiang said, "Isn't it just compost? You two don't understand, nor have you done it before, so what else do you want us?"

Liu Chenghe also said: "Yes, compost is not a high-tech job, but in this era, to increase production, one can only rely on compost."

At this time, Li Songchen and others also understood, and Li Songchen immediately asked, "What is compost?"

After being recognized by the two old men, Gao Shize's enthusiasm increased greatly and explained to Li Songchen: "Minister Li, compost, also known as compost corruption, is an organic fertilizer made by using animal and plant remains and excrement containing fertilizer components, soil and other minerals mixed and accumulated, and under high temperature and humidity conditions, fermentation and decomposition of microorganisms."

Liu Weizheng added: "Although natural fertilizers are not as good as chemical fertilizers, they can actually be used. In addition to the commonly used human and animal manure, bones, and sludge, there are also dead branches and leaves, food feed, tree bark, crop stems, weeds, stems, leftover vegetables and rice, garbage, and other natural fertilizers can all be used as natural fertilizers. However, except for human and animal manure, bones, and sludge, other natural fertilizers are not easily absorbed by crops. They need to undergo some treatment to improve fertility and reduce losses. At the same time, they can also transform the quality of the land and achieve the effect of increasing yield. It is not as efficient as chemical fertilizers and so much increase yield."

Li Songchen also heard it all the time and asked again: "What technology is needed to compost corruption?"

Gao Shize smiled and said, "There is no technology. Just build a large covered pond and then accumulate more natural fertilizer. Of course, there are still some requirements for repairing ponds, and the ratio of compost types is also somewhat particular. Some fertilizers cannot be fermented together, but they are not complicated. In addition, when compost fermentation, a large amount of biogas may be generated, so good ventilation is required." After a pause, he said, "In the old time and space, although fertilizers have been widely used, compost is still used. Our usual green food is actually used for compost. A composting factory was built on our farm, which is specifically used for compost production."

Liu Weizheng said: "But it takes a certain amount of time to compost, usually at least three months. Therefore, if you want to use it after the beginning of the year, you have to start composting now. For example, human and animal manure, bones, dead branches and leaves, weeds, stems, leftover vegetables and rice, garbage, etc., you must try to collect them as much as possible, the more the better, and some lime powder is also needed."

Li Songchen said: "This is easy. We will go to the countryside tomorrow. The construction of rural projects is still in progress. The materials are ready-made. We will start building a composting factory immediately and start composting immediately. As for how to build a composting factory, you two can just negotiate with the engineering staff. As for natural fertilizers, I will report to the Executive Committee that a special department will be established, not only to collect agricultural materials, but also in Tianjin City and Tianjin Concession."

At this time, Wang Shengdao: "Now fertilizer, irrigation and soil can be solved, so what should I do if I prevent pests and diseases? There are no pesticides now."

Gao Shi said, "This is a problem, but compared with the first three conditions, the impact of diseases and pests on agriculture is much weaker, because diseases and pests are not present every year. In addition, although there are no pesticides now, there are some soil methods that can prevent and control diseases and pests, such as sprinkling lime powder is the most commonly used soil method."

Then Li Songchen and others asked some other agricultural questions, such as cash crops, raising poultry, livestock, etc. Gao and Liu families also explained them in detail one by one. Before they knew it, they had an afternoon talk, and Li Songchen and others could be regarded as taking an agricultural popularization class, and they felt that they benefited a lot.

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However, although Li Songchen planned to take Gao and Liu'er's family to the countryside for field investigations early the next morning and implement the construction of a composting plant, on the same night, Li Songchen received a notice from the executive committee that tomorrow morning, the heads of various departments would stay for a meeting to discuss the next work plan. Therefore, Li Songchen could not escape and could only let Zeng Dong, Wang Sheng and Gao and Liu'er's family go to the countryside.

Fortunately, Zeng Dong and Wang Sheng have shown good work ability and attitude towards work over the past period of time, so Li Songchen can also leave this matter to the two of them with confidence.

In fact, the meeting to discuss the next work plan of the Time Travel Group was a long-standing agenda. After all, after the victory of the Tianjin Defense War, the Time Travel Group faced a huge military threat, and the Eight-Nation Alliance retreated to Beijing could basically not pose any danger to Tianjin.

Although the military has been decided long ago, and the next step is to attack Shandong and establish a long-term base, Tianjin's construction and economic development have also been put on the agenda. This is a need for Tianjin. Because Tianjin is a city dominated by circulation economy, after the Time Travel Group captured Tianjin, due to the significant military pressure, it adopted a policy of a comprehensive blockade in Tianjin, causing great losses to Tianjin's society and economy. Now the military threat no longer exists, so lifting Tianjin's blockade and starting to develop the economy has become a top priority. In addition, merchants, shops, and foreign companies in the Tianjin Concession also tried their best to actively travel through the Time Travel Group and reopen Tianjin. Of course, they all vowed that only doing business will never endanger the time Travelers' rule over Tianjin.

On the one hand, opening up Tianjin is also a need for the Time Travel Group itself. After all, it has been more than a month since time travel. Despite its great military success, most of the daily necessities of the Time Travel Group have been consumed. In addition, the construction of the Tianjin area has made the current Time Travel Group urgently need a large amount of supplies, and businessmen from various countries in Tianjin are undoubtedly the best suppliers. Therefore, it is indeed necessary to relax Tianjin's blockade and restore Tianjin's economic development, which has become the biggest topic at the conference.

Tianjin's construction and economic development have also allowed various departments to see opportunities to fight for their own rights and interests. Some time ago, officials from various departments have been moving to find alliances, and it is time to play a role.

This meeting lasted for three days, and the first two days were free to speak. The officials in charge of each department reported the proposals of their departments in the hall and were interrogated by other departments and the executive committee. Therefore, the officials in charge of each department spoke passionately at the meetings, decomposing and arguing about their issues, and of course there are also support from allies.

On the third day, the results were announced by the five permanent executive members of the Interim Executive Committee. Because the current five standing committee members implemented by the Interim Executive Committee, the results proposed by each department are decided by the five standing committee members, and once announced, there will be no more changes. Other departments can only accept them whether they are willing or not.

First of all, the resolution made by the Five Standing Committee members was to rename the Tianjin Concession Tianjin New District and establish the Tianjin New District Government, while Gordon Hall was renamed the Government Administrative Building. However, the Ministry of Administration is currently responsible for implementing the pre-administrative management of the Tianjin New District. The scope of jurisdiction covers the entire Tianjin area.

The Time Travel Group has captured Tianjin for more than a month. Although it has established a temporary executive committee and administrative department, these are the names of institutions. The Time Travel Group does not have a formal name yet. In addition, the Concession Area in Tianjin can obviously no longer be called the "Concession". Therefore, the Concession Area in Tianjin was changed to the Tianjin New District, and the Time Travel Group was temporarily called the Tianjin New District Government.

Although some people suggested that it is better to use names such as autonomous regions or liberated areas, the five members of the temporary executive committee considered that the names of autonomous regions and liberated areas were still too sensitive, which was almost a blatant rebellion of the Qing court. Now the time travel group still needs the Qing court's sign. It is best not to break up with the Qing court for the time being, so it is better to live a good life on the broad side. It is better to use a less radical name like "new district". After establishing a base in Shandong in the future, the name "new district" will also be used.

Another resolution was that the army was officially named the Tianjin New District People's Army, abbreviated as the People's Army. Because in the old time and space, the full name of the army was the Chinese People's Liberation Army, abbreviated as the People's Liberation Army. However, like the name of the government, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the word "people" in the original name was taken as the name of the army.

Of course, the name of the army is not without controversy, because the name of the People's Army is the same as the name of a famous subject-minded country in the old time and space, so it is difficult for some people to accept it. They believe that even if the name of the People's Liberation Army cannot be used, it can also be called a new army, which is much better than the name of a famous subject-minded country in the old time and space.

However, the name "New Army" was already available at this time. It turned out that after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, in order to strengthen the army, the Qing court ordered the army to be compiled by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Nie Shicheng, Wen Chudao, Yuan Shikai and others to train the new army, and they are also called the New Army. The most famous new army was Yuan Shikai, who used the German system as a model at the Tianjin Station, formulated a set of modern army organizational organization, officer appointment and training system, training and education system, recruitment system, food and salary system, etc., which was called the Beiyang New Army. This is the prototype of the Beiyang warlords in the old time and space.
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